--- title: As time went on the poor Flame Lady grew more and more jealous of Du… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: As time went on the poor Flame Lady grew more and more jealous of Duv Laca, and more and more certain that, if only she could know what had happened, she would get some ease to her tormented heart and some assuagement of her perfectly natural curiosity. Who acts: poor Flame Lady, Lady. A sentence of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/73/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter II. Said Cairide’:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/73/) / 17 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, sentence 17 As time went on the poor Flame Lady grew more and more jealous of Duv Laca, and more and more certain that, if only she could know what had happened, she would get some ease to her tormented heart and some assuagement of her perfectly natural curiosity. **Who acts:** poor Flame Lady, Lady · **What happens:** go, grow, know, happen, get, torment · **To what, where:** ease, Duv, heart, natural curiosity · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Flame Lady, Lady), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:73:17 # text = As time went on the poor Flame Lady grew more and more jealous of Duv Laca, and more and more certain that, if only she could know what had happened, she would get some ease to her tormented heart and some assuagement of her perfectly natural curiosity. 1 As as ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 Flame Flame PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Lady Lady PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 10 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 9 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ _ 13 jealous jealous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Duv Duv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 Laca Laca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 22 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ _ 30 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 32 nsubj _ _ 31 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 29 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 advcl _ _ 37 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 38 det _ _ 38 ease ease NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ _ 41 tormented torment VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 42 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 45 det _ _ 45 assuagement assuagement NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 47 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 48 perfectly perfectly ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 49 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 curiosity curiosity NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | | | | | time | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **grow** | past | the poor Flame Lady | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | Lady | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **happen** | past · perfect | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **get** | would | Lady | some ease | Duv | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ease=Stimulus | | 6 | **torment** | past | | heart and some assuagement of Duv's natural curiosity | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer | | 7 | **assuage** | | | Duv's natural curiosity | | | | | nom assuagement «feeling transitive»: of=patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/73/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/73/18/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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